Salamence-GX SM139/248 · SM Black Star Promos

SM Black Star Promos is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 3 February 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. Salamence-GX is SM139/248, in position 142 of 251 on this checklist. Before it is SM138 Zekrom-GX, and after it is SM140 Salamence. The listed rarity is Promo.

Salamence-GX is a Stage 2 GX Dragon Pokémon with 250 HP. In the Pokédex this is Salamence (#373), generation 3 (Hoenn). The card says it evolves from Shelgon. In this catalog that name is Shelgon (#372).

5ban Graphics illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,629 other cards in the catalog.

Salamence (#373) has 30 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Salamence 10/97 in Dragon (2003). That card is named Salamence, while this one is Salamence-GX. That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 250 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Promo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and 5ban Graphics illustrated this one. 28 other cards of Salamence list a different HP.

Dragon Lift is listed as Ability. Your Pokémon in play have no Retreat Cost, except Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX. The attack Bright Flame lists 200 damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Colorless, Colorless. Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. Flame Jet-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. This attack does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Fairy ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

I keep a set binder for SM Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the SM Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Salamence can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.